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Stripes

50 images Created 16 Oct 2013

A loose gallery of random stripes in the landscape and their relationship with surrounding incidental puns and occurrences.

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  • Two US Navy sailors carefully fold the nation's on an upper deck of the aircraft carrier USS Harry S Truman. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women. The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the .
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  • Running colours of a table paper covering, rained on and spoiled after unseasonal rain during patriotic VE Day street party.
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  • Construction crew grind at the road surface surrounded by diagonals of red and white stripes of their works site.
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  • The faces on a construction site hoarding peer over a contractor's pile of tarmac in the back of a small truck.
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  • Reflections of londoners and the reflected rear of an NHS London ambulance stopped near a bus shelter.
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  • on 19th April, in the heart of the capital's financial district, on 19th April, in the City of London, England.
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  • National Grid gas works van and passers-by in the busy Oxford Circus in central London.
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  • A man wearing matching red tie approaches a sunlit post and warning tape in a City of London street.
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  • An unwanted necktie lies still knotted in a central London street.
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  • A smartly-dressed gentleman walks past betting promo girls during the annual Royal Ascot horseracing festival in Berkshire, England. Royal Ascot is one of Europe's most famous race meetings, and dates back to 1711. Queen Elizabeth and various members of the British Royal Family attend. Held every June, it's one of the main dates on the English sporting calendar and summer social season. Over 300,000 people make the annual visit to Berkshire during Royal Ascot week, making this Europe's best-attended race meeting with over £3m prize money to be won.
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  • A group of four friends drink Champagne from glasses and plastic cups from beneath welcome shade during a particularly hot afternoon at the Henley Royal Regatta boat races, England. Dressed in quintessentially English blazers that denote their university and boat club, the four are in jovial spirits during this annual festival of high-society, serious rowing and general clowning around on the rural Thames. In 1829 a boat race challenge was held between teams representing the universities of Oxford and Cambridge. The venue chosen was a straight stretch of the Thames at the small town of Henley-on-Thames. Now held July and is one of the main dates on the sporting calendar and social season for the hoi polloi
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  • Girl in stripes passes-by railings and child theme advertisement in south London.
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  • Football supporter mates mess around in a London street before going on to watch their team's match elsewhere in the capital. But this man in the green stripes of his team is NOT a pickpocket as might be suggested on first look. He reaches into the unbuttoned pocket of the older-looking man in shorts. But recaptioning this picture to suggest he is a street criminal might be thought libelous, giving this brief moment a misinterpretation and misrepresentation.
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  • Two elderly men carefully descend steps into an inner-city underpass at Elephant & Castle, in central London.
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  • A moment of reflected symmetry as a young man in a striped shirt makes a smartphone call in a busy London street. As other shopping pedestrians pass-by in late-afternoon sunshine on London's Long Acre (Street) the young man holds the phone with his right hand while holding himself around the chest with the left. Above his head is the London Underground sign of the Covent Garden station.
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  • A man wearing a striped jumper walks through a shaft of early spring light in a side street in the capital's financial district. This is Lombard Street, originally a piece of land granted by King Edward I to goldsmiths from the part of northern Italy known as Lombardy (larger than the modern region of Lombardy). It is a narrow and usually dark sidestreet near the Bank of England in the heart of what is called the Square Mile - the inner-part and oldest quarter of London occupied first by the Romans 2,000 years ago. Nowadays the City of London is home to banks and financial institutions but also with a resident population of under 10,000 but a daily working population of 311,000.
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  • A woman in red striped top looks at home next marquees of a similar pattern and colour as he leans against the nude male figure of a garden ornament at the Chelsea Flower Show, the annual event held by the Royal Horticultural Society (RHS) in London. Her friend bends down and the statue with a hand on his leg has a smile on his face.
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  • In light monsoonal rain, a lone pedestrian is seen from a high viewpoint, crossing a zebra crossing with a yellow grid box junction to his right in Central Hong Kong on the last day of British rule. The junction is empty and without any traffic but the word 'Look' is stencilled in white letters for the benefit of unwary pedestrians. An umbrella used by the unrecognisable person is a colour match with the painted striped road markings, identical to the British highway traffic code. The transfer of sovereignty of Hong Kong from the United Kingdom to the Peoples Republic of China (PRC), often referred to as "The Handover" occurred at midnight on June 30, 1997, signifying the end of British rule, and the transfer of legal and financial authority back to China. Hong Kong was once known as 'fragrant harbour' (or Heung Keung) because of the smell of transported sandal wood.
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  • Red striped theme in empty urban pavement landscape.
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  • Red and white striped cuboid sits on the pavement near recently-completed housing in 2012 Olympic Stratford.
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  • Red and white striped tape covers scaffolding on a south London construction site.
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  • Businessman style of shirt and striped tie worn by mens' clothing shop mannequin in city window, with matching stripes.
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  • Repetition and visual pun of stripes from zebra crossing and number 11 Routemaster bus.
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  • red bus and stylish and athletic model on a billboard for clothing retailer H&M, in central London.
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  • A window dresser prepares a new window design with a stripes theme in the Oxford Street branch of retailer Debenhams.
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  • Expensive real estate beach hut at the Suffolk seaside town of Southwold, Suffolk.
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  • In the shelter of a large red and yellow-striped marquee tent, a middle-aged husband and wife relax in deck chairs on Brighton's East Pier, England. The wife appears to be asleep and has taken the prrecution against splinters from the pier's planks by spreading a tiny towell to rest her feet upon. She has dyed hair and large sun glasses and her bony legs are tanned and veined from much exposure to the sun. The husband is also fully-clothed with a loud checked jacket, black shoes and socks and he sits crossed-legged with a peaked cap and dark glasses with his hands across his belly. They are in a peaceful spot on this pier, a Victorian seaside structure built in 1899 for those taking the air to walk out onto the sea without getting their feet wet.
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  • A Corporation worker inspects the red carpet and red and white striped marquee after a military event at the Guildhall in the City of London, the capital's financial district and historic heart.
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  • Pedestrian in a Soho side-street, pattened with purple.
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  • Freshly-Painted Double-Yellow Lines on Cobbled Street in Edinburgh, on 26th June 2019, in Edinburgh, Scotland.
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  • Businessman walks down quiet financial district back street carrying an umbrella whose stripes echo those of double-yellow lines
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  • Roadworks and stripes from an adjacent office building reflects on to the road surface in Threadneedle Street, City of London.
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  • A businessman struggles to put up an umbrella in front of construction site stripes.
    street_stripes01-10-10-2013.jpg
  • Construction hoarding and London cityscape showing the capital at The Pinnacle project on Bishopsgate in the City of London. Construction work has been suspended again on the Pinnacle in the City of London. Contractor Brookfield is understood to have been told to stop work following more funding concerns over the Square Mile's tallest tower. Brookfield restarted work last September after developer Arab Investments put together a new finance package. But a lack of a pre-let tenant has now caused further delays on site leaving Byrne Bros concrete cores standing idle. The Bishopsgate Tower, informally referred to as The Pinnacle, was to be a 288 m (945 ft), 64-storey skyscraper in the centre of London's main financial district.
    london_pinnacle06-07-02-2013.jpg
  • Red and white striped construction barrier and artwork of an eco leaf created by contractor Galliford Try in central LOndon. Galliford Try was been selected by Green Property (UK) Ltd for a £27 million project, to create 100,000 sq ft of Category A office space in St James's Park.
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  • Stripes and shadows in an urban landscape of an underground car park in the Slovenian capital, Ljubljana, on 27th June 2018, in Ljubljana, Slovenia.
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  • A child's lost toy has been left on railway railings during wintry snow at Herne Hill, south London.
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  • Deep below-decks, we peer through a striped window of the highly-classified Conflict Direction Center or War Room on the aircraft carrier US Navy USS Harry S Truman during its deployment patrol of the no-flyzone in the Persian Gulf, near the Kuwaiti coast. This top secret office is used for planning and executing sophisticated tactical electronic warfare that fighter jets and surveillance aircraft engage in from air operations mounted from the carrier. The Truman is the largest and newest of the US Navy's fleet of new generation carriers, a 97,000 ton floating city with a crew of 5,137, 650 are women. The Iraqi no-fly zones (NFZs) were proclaimed by the United States, United Kingdom and France after the Gulf War of 1991 to protect humanitarian operations in northern Iraq and Shiite Muslims in the south. Iraqi aircraft were forbidden from flying inside the zones. The policy was enforced by US, UK and French aircraft patrols until France withdrew in 1998.  .
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  • A detail of hazard tape marks the dangerous presence of Asbestos at a business at Spitalfields, on 26th June, in London, England.
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  • Striped covers for electrical cables turn a right-angle turn to the left towards power cabinets  which are numbered 1 to 6 at the European Space Agency's Europropulsion Ariane 5 rocket Booster Integration Building. Railings ensure that pedestrians keep to the  walkways without endangering health and safety, according to EU law. Elsewhere in this giant building the boosters that propel ESA rockets into space are integrated with their payloads.  ...
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  • A detail of a Boeing 777 airliner during the bi-annual aerospace industry expo at the Farnborough airshow in southern England. The plane's colour scheme across its fuselage and cabin has been carefully chosen and applied by Boeing whose aircraft this is as it makes a European press and PR tour to help foreign airlines make their choice of an American manufacturer.
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  • Waiting in line for a departing flight, an airline captain patiently queues with his flight baggage along with passengers. Rather than being on duty and flying the aircraft himself, he is travelling home as a passenger. On many commercial flights, off-duty air crew position as passengers. Airlines plan complicated logistics with cabin and cockpit crew members' duty rosters. This man's four stripes denotes his seniority as a captain who flies right-hand seat, in command of a airliner. In the US, pilots might also have National Guard careers flying jet fighters in times of conflict while off-duty in airline shifts. Picture from the 'Plane Pictures' project, a celebration of aviation aesthetics and flying culture, 100 years after the Wright brothers first 12 seconds/120 feet powered flight at Kitty Hawk,1903. .
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  • An eccentric middle-aged man rests his legs on his bicycle while -open mouthed and snoring - snatches forty winks on a striped deck chair in London's Hyde Park, England. We look down on the grass which is still green and lush  on this summer's day in the heart of the city. He is wearing a flat cap with trousers (pants)  tucked in his socks for his next bicycle journey. He is a quintissentially English sunbather enjoying a quiet snooze in a public park open space.
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  • Four water-logged deckchairs have been abandoned on a wet Brighton's East Pier in East Sussex. It is Spring but the rain has driven away holidaymakers from this desolate and depressing spot from England's South coast seaside resort. We see a gloomy, grey sky and empty horizon with neither people, nor water activity but the stripes of the railings are echoed in the reflective wooden planks on this Victorian-era pier and of the fabric on the deckchairs. We wonder who might have sat on these chairs and where they might be now?  This landscape might be the antithesis of a holiday poster that repels rather than attracts tourists to this location.
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  • Brushes and bucket on the ground, surrounded by hazzard tape in Trafalgar Square, central London.
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  • Yellow and black hazard tape on the ground of the pavement in Jubilee Gardens, on 20th July 2017, on the Southbank, London, England.
    southbank_tape-03-20-07-2017.jpg
  • The taped up doors of Westminster City Hall on Victoria Street, on 6th September 2017, in London, England. Westminster City Council’s 19-storey headquarters has closed for a £60 million refurbishment lasting nearly two years.
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  • Criss-crossed hazard tape on smashed glass in Vaclav Havel Airport, on 20th March, 2018, in Prague, the Czech Republic.
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  • Hazard tape stretched across the glass of an old telephone kiosk on Tottenham Court Road, on 3rd August 2017, in London, England.
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  • A tree protector encased in a wrapping of wood with hazard tape on a street corner of Elgin Cresent and Clarendon Road W11 in Notting Hill in the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, on 13th March 2018, in London, England.
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